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author Daniele Nicolodi <nicolodi@science.unitn.it>
date Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:20:06 +0100
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% PLOTTERFACTORY factory constructor for different plotter objects.
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% DESCRIPTION: PLOTTERFACTORY factory constructor for different plotter objects.
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% CONSTRUCTOR:
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%            p = plotterFactory.makePlotter(objects)
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% VERSION:     $Id: plotterFactory.m,v 1.2 2011/04/08 08:56:38 hewitson Exp $
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classdef plotterFactory
  
  methods (Abstract=true)
    dummy(varargin); % dummy abstract method to ensure this factory can't be instantiated
  end
  
  methods (Static=true)
    
    function p = makePlotter(varargin)
      obj_cl = class(varargin{1});
      objs = utils.helper.collect_objects(varargin(:), obj_cl);

      switch obj_cl
        case 'ao'          
          dcl = class(objs(1).data);
          % Check if all the ao.data objects are of the same class; if not,
          % we return an aoplotter.
          for kk=1:numel(objs)
            obj = objs(kk);
            if ~strcmp(class(obj.data), dcl)
              warning('Object [%s] has a different data type to object [%s]; returning a default aoplotter');
              p = aoplotter(objs);
              return 
            end
          end
          
          % Otherwise go on and attempt to build a more specialised plotter
          switch dcl
            case 'tsdata'
              p = tsplotter(objs);
            otherwise
              p = aoplotter(objs);
              warning('I don''t know how to make a plotter for %s/%s data objects; returning a default plotter', obj_cl, dcl);
          end
          
        otherwise
          error('I don''t know how to make a plotter for %s objects', cl);
      end % End switch on object class
      
    end % End makePlotter
    
  end % End static methods block
  
end
% END